_ofdw

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by _ofdw 4y ago
>Frequently they need to close emergency services in major (& minor) cities at night due to staff shortages. The wait times for basic diagnostics is on the order of months (not days or weeks). Part of this is COVID burnout. It wasn&#
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Clasp is actually a word, and CLISP is part of GNU now so they should probably rename it something childish and cringe inducing like LURP, which is a recursive acronym for LERP: Universal REPL Programming or something.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
My experience with SBCL disagrees with this. It's not as fast as, say, C++ for some use cases, but it's pretty quick. Significantly faster than something like Python.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
I think it's equally dangerous to write off extremism as the product of stupid people. Hitler certainly wasn't a dunce, for example.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>The BSDs are much cleaner than Linux distros. I see this opinion a lot, but what tangible benefits does that result in?
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by _ofdw 4y ago
A libertarian paradise is a corporate dystopia.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
A Hacker News town would be awful. A bloated mess of JavaScript powered "smart" things connected to a surveillance capitalism advertising dystopia.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Wasabi?
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Perhaps not everything needs to "scale".
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by _ofdw 4y ago
I've been using lisp-stat in production as part of an algorithmic trading application I wrote. It's been very solid, and though the plotting is (perhaps was, in light of this new release) kinda unwieldy, I really enjoyed using it.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Apparently I'm in the minority that feels config languages should be little more than namespaces and key-value storage and should not be programmable. I would not want to use a bash script as a config file, for example.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>But it's not Poettering, it's the Gnome folks in general. It might also be the Gnome folks but it's definitely also Poettering. Let's not pretend he's some blameless martyr. The guy's a jerk.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free & gratis!) software they don't like. Seriously, it's mystifying. Because he and his orbiters were extraordinarily arrogant and cond
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by _ofdw 4y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree on the UX part. I find the UX to be very poor compared to Fedora, for example. There's nothing OpenBSD does better than its competitors by enough of a degree to make up for its warts; it's no
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Re: relevance, I'm referring specifically to OpenBSD the OS. It has no real use case. It's a research OS at best. The performance is abysmal and "code correctness" or "cohesion" is worth its weight in gold f
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by _ofdw 4y ago
The npm ecosystem has been shown over and over again to be a dysfunctional tire fire. I feel like at this point continuing to publish on npm is kind of a "that's what you get" situation.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>You are at new place, you going to work like 4-6 hours instead of 8-9 hours. Literally nobody is productive for 9 hours straight. You end up doing low-value make-work projects because in a culture that values "time in seat" th
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Yeah the best part of the home lab hobby is gatekeeping because you spent more than someone else and you need to belittle them to justify how much you spent on your Juniper or whatever.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
For me it was installing a local account with admin privileges via Kali Linux.
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>Free Software will never be palatable to the mainstream, because the mainstream rejects socialist ideas. Then don't frame it as a socialist idea. There's absolutely nothing about Free Software that has a hard requirement on s
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by _ofdw 4y ago
>"Everybody who voted for a candidate who I don't like is a sociopath" That's neither an accurate nor a very charitable interpretation of what I wrote, but I suppose I expect no less from HN. "Right wing sociopat
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Agreed, stability is a big plus. I recently decided to take the plunge and start learning Common Lisp, and now it's my favorite language despite some warts. Being an ANSI standard with multiple cooperative implementations, it's un
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by _ofdw 4y ago
Probably because boomers who grew up with the imperial system are the only ones who can afford swimming pools in Canada.
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by _ofdw 5y ago
>Personally, in-group / out-group mentality is the easiest to manufacture and exploit, and serves as a fantastic emotional distraction from other areas. My personal conspiracy theory is that the current shit storm of identity politi
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by _ofdw 5y ago
Markdown is actually awful. There's at least 3 different dialects that are all called Markdown, so if you want your text rendered it's a toss-up as to whether or not it'll look how you intend. I think that Markdown's suc
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by _ofdw 5y ago
I'm under the impression that rate-limiting is manually applied by the moderators on a per-user basis. *edit: Ironically I've been rate limited and can't continue this conversation, lmao
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by _ofdw 5y ago
If we'd just rewrite all of the things in Rust we could solve computer bugs forever, and world hunger too.
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by _ofdw 5y ago
I haven't touched C++ since first year university and even I know what boost and std are.
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by _ofdw 5y ago
Just get vaccinated already.
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by _ofdw 5y ago
>Where and by whom? Well, literally every single person I've spoken to about it calls it either "thunderbolt" or "USB-C", or else they're boomers and call it "the round one". Not a single person I&

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